Discover the meanings and stories behind Lionel Messi’s tattoos—from tributes to his family to symbols of faith and football.

Spain's King Felipe VI named Rafael Nadal the Marqués de Llevant de Mallorca. The Royal family celebrated Rafa's tennis ...

In 1460, we have a reference to Bianca de Medici, — obviously a very powerful, important Florentine family — and she played for the ... I really think that the organ is sort of a symbol for a ...

Its status as an aristocratic symbol only fed resentment from clergy ... born into the influential Florentine Medici family. When she married Henry II of France in 1533, Catherine did not simply ...

Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after ...

The corridor was built by Florence’s powerful Medici family to allow them to move secretly and safely from one part of the historic Italian city to another. “It’s a reopening that allows us ...

After Julius II’s death, the Medici family reclaimed papal power ... Raphael’s School of Athens—remain eternal symbols of human achievement. The Medici Popes, Julius II, and the turbulent politics of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and ...

Contrary to the overly dramatic storyline of the TV biopic “The Serpent Queen” on Starz, Catherine de’ Medici wasn’t really that bad as queen and later queen mother in 16th-century France.

The rise of the Medici family was propelled by their mastery ... Reviewing the literature, the House of Medici emerges as a symbol of Renaissance power and affluence, with the Medici Bank serving ...